18th September 2013, 09:24 AM
Quote: what business is it of somebody from ucl. Maybe we should be taking the mickle out of some pathetic post doc subject. From what I can ascertain this person got into archaeology by doing one of those MAs after some undergraduate
PhD funded through employment (British Museum and UCL)MA, Public Archaeology, UCL, 2006
Cert Ed (QTS), University of Plymouth, 2003
BA, Fine Art (Printmaking), Loughborough College of Art, 1989
what does that tool think of this persons digging skills?
I’ve arrived a bit late to this thread, which is a pity. Going back to unitof1’s first thread
What business is it of somebody from UCL?
UCL has one of the largest departments of archaeology in the UK and runs a contracts division (Archaeology South East) currently employing over 50 archaeologists. Guess that makes it UCL’s business.
Maybe we should be taking the mickle out of some pathetic post doc subject.
Must be easy to throw stones when you're hiding behind a fake name, Chivalric Lord. You’re encouraging others to join in a mob attack on someone on an Internet forum. However, it seemed to backfire on you, so I’ll let that one go.
From what I can ascertain this person got into archaeology by doing one of those MAs after some undergraduate
PhD funded through employment (British Museum and UCL)MA, Public Archaeology, UCL, 2006
Cert Ed (QTS), University of Plymouth, 2003
BA, Fine Art (Printmaking), Loughborough College of Art, 1989
I know which webpage you got this from. There’s plenty more information on me out there though. I'll come back to this in a minute.
What does that tool think of this persons digging skills? Not sure if you’re calling me ‘a tool’ here, or asking another user called ‘Tool’ to comment.
One thing you missed when you carried out your research on me was my email address, which you could have found on Google and is at the end of the slideshare (inviting people to get in touch). If you had contacted me for further information about my background I would have told you this:
Yes, my first degree was in Fine Art (graduated 1989). I started working on excavations (local society digs) in 1995 in the Midlands. By 2000 I was teaching archaeology in Cornwall (adult and further ed.) and working on commercial projects (as a Site Assistant, 2004-5). 2005-6 in London doing MA, followed by PhD. My PhD was unfunded so I funded it myself through employment (over 6 years) at the British Museum. Following my PhD I put together a research proposal to undertake research on public engagement in commercial archaeology and approached UCL Advances (Dept Business & Enterprise). The project was supported by Archaeology South-East (remember the 50 odd commercial archaeologists at UCL). Since the project finished (at the end of June) I’ve been employed by ASE (as a Senior Archaeologist) to continue some of the initiatives that I started on behalf of the company, to work on projects which have community outreach elements, and to prepare a HLF bid for a community archaeology project which we hope will in 2014. I’m currently also working on various other research projects for UCL.
Last time I was in a trench on a commercial site - August 2013. I do own a trowel and I know what to do with it.
You queried in another post whether the 70+ % of people that completed my survey actually did work for private companies. You said you didn’t believe this, and you suggested that I might not know the difference between different types of commercial operations. The respondents self-defined from a selection of available categories (private, authority, charity etc etc) when they completed the survey.
Unitof1, if you'd like any more information about my research activities feel free to email me - same goes for everyone else on BAJR.
Hilary